Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Chance favors the connected mind.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Build a tangled bank.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

There are no coincidences...

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

Learn to love what you've been taught to fear.

Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.